Alan Stennett

Duration: 55 minutes
Format: PAL, region 0
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Status: Available

At Casterton, Rutland, enthusiasts re-create the early days of harvest mechanisation, from binders to early combines.

Four threshing sets, including a Ransomes unit of traction engine, drum and baler, a Ransomes portable steam engine and 'Crofters' drum, and an American McCormick peg-drum thresher driven by a Lanz vintage tractor, are all at work on sheaves cut and bound the same day by an IH binder.

Veteran Massey Harris and Allis Chalmers combines and a 1930s International 31T harvester gather in the wheat, alongside a post-war B64 from IH.  The straw is dealt with by balers, including a New Holland Automaton and an Allis Rotobaler.

A range of vintage tractors, including Allis Chalmers and Field Marshall, handle the harvest equipment.  Other machines on show include Saunderson, Caterpillar, Nuffield and a small mill driven by a little stationary engine which ground the day's wheat into flour.

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